Songs - how did it’s meaning get so lost?

[PrincipalVernon]

Sparked from another thread that was slightly off topic but reminded me how irritated I get by it-
Anyone else feel a slow burning rage when people mistake the meaning of songs so for example I have been to a fair few weddings where the couple walk onto the dance floor and their song is ‘marry you’ or ‘every breath you take’
Now I know it’s their choice, their song so who cares but I can’t help that little build up in side that makes me what to grab the mic and shout ‘listen to the words people!!’
Just want to point out that I’ve never actually done that, I stand there and smile
Am I alone in getting irritated by something so pointless?

A church organist I sometimes works with refuses to allow “Bind Us Together Lord” at weddings. Chains that cannot be broken, she insists it’s kinky 😂.

Loving the love for Shania on this thread 'You're Still the One' works pretty well too!

And then there's Whitney "saving all my love for you" about being an OW.

Shady do you yawn at yet another Shania or Etta request? What requests have impressed you?

I wanted Too Drunk To Fuck by Dead Kennedys. ExH said "no".

I went to a wedding years and years ago, where the first dance song was Nothing Compares 2U... That was odd.

Tracy Chapman's Wedding Song is lovely

I walked down the aisle to an instrumental song called "fuck this shit".
Do I win?.

Also... Pie Jesu, not a wedding song people, it’s for a Requiem (i,e funeral) mass.

On the other hand, my favourite moment was a very intimate Christmas wedding where the bride walked down the aisle whilst I sang Songbird. It was a second marriage after an abusive first marriage, “For you, there’ll be no crying...I feel that when I’m with you it’s alright, I know it’s right etc”. Just summed up the emotions perfectly, they were both older, had been through a lot and finally found each other, their “person”. Not a dry eye in the house.

Dione she took out her retainer and put it in her purse. Great line!

Oh jeez. We had Yazoo - only you

A quick Google reveals it's a song about the resignation of a relationship.

Oops.. good thing we are happy as Larry haha

There's also"broken road" by rascal flatts - good one for a second wedding. I love Songbird, lovely song.

You could also have"goodbye my lover" while the bride winks at a congregation member.

Part of our wedding ceremony music was called Ride to Death by Carter Burwell from the film True Grit. Beautiful piece of music though.

I've said this on here before but I used to lay with a wedding band and the amount of people who had "always" by Bon jovi in the late 90s as first dance was unreal...

I refused so many of our favourite songs because of this, luckily our favourite is a love song and appropriate to those ‘rules.’ But hey. Who cares. If it means something to the couple and they like it, fair enough. I’ve been to enough weddings with John legend snorefests that have ended in divorce, and the strongest marriage I know had Bennie and the Jets. Why not hey?! It was fun. B B B BENNIE!

I'm having "still the one" for our silver wedding first dance😉

They said I bet they'll never make it..

DH wanted 'Every breath you take' as our first dance song, until I pointed out it was a song about stalking

DH's friend wanted Kylie's 'All the lovers' played at the reception. The missus put her foot down and continued to do so for almost 10 years until he finally saw the light and left. He's with someone else now, she's absolutely lovely and one night a few of us were in a local pub on a night out when that song came on. New lady started laughing as she knew the back story. We all belted it out, then turned around at the end only to see the ex wife there with a face on her that would sour milk

You're not unreasonable.

Remember when Alexandra Burke brought out, 'Alleluia"? She wasn't the only one, Jeff Buckley before her and after her, Katherine Jenkins.

I drove past churches who had it on their boards at the front, choirs singing it saying it was bringing people back to spirituality.

Honestly!

Leonard Cohen wrote that song, inspired by a brothel he had visited.

I daresay there were people who had someone sing that at their wedding, in church.

Hee hee.

I was once at a wedding where they had first dance to 'must have been love's my first dance was not too traditional either but she said as he picked me up for a date early on in our relationship...I think I have just heard our wedding song. When we got married it couldn't be anything else.

Oh and as far as I know the must have been love couple are still married.

@thighofrelief Shania and Etta are appropriate at least and along with the various Ave Maria’s and Panis Angelicus and The Prayer are pretty much bread and butter for me.

Songbird was very special and just seemed perfect and I also did Something with a string quartet which surprised me but was nice and different. It contained the lyrics, “you’re asking me will my love grow, I don’t know, I don’t know” and the couple explained they knew marriage required work and it was just the beginning of a journey of their lives together and they liked the honesty of that part of the song. I also was impressed by a couple that requested Feels Like Home and another couple that asked for Yours by Ella Henderson (again there was a complex backstory which made this song especially appropriate). I like God Blessed The Broken Road too.

My favourite wedding was a recent one that was very religious and the couple picked some gorgeous modern worship songs. They’d really thought about what they wanted to express in the music and took lots of care over choosing hymns and solos.

In terms of first dances, I really like By Your Side and No Ordinary Love by Sade and others but iPad is about to die 😂

Sorry for typos. Dh said and must have been love

I also like You're still the one by Shania.

Last remaining iPad juice...also like Let’s Stay Together by Al Green for a first dance.

Not quite the same, but attended a lovely wedding where we left the church and everyone walked together to the garden reception where there was a big steam organ fair thing, the bloke started it all up with 'I'm just a girl that can't say no' - we all started laughing and he was mortified, almost in tears, as you can't stop/change them easily.

Dh and I had On a Night Like This by Kylie, not everyone's cup of tea but perfect lyrics for us.

On a night like this
I want to stay forever
On a night like this
Just want to be together
On a night like this

Seems like I've known you a lifetime
Now it's time to make you mine

Yep the Kylie one is nice.

@thighofrelief

Sister is a musical idiot and probably would have had "Ben" by MJ or something.

Should have played "You're a Cocklodger" to the tune of "She's a Maneater" at mine and Xs.

@Dionethediablist

I wanted Too Drunk To Fuck by Dead Kennedys. ExH said "no".

Ba ha ha!